Black Friday

So here I am, awake at six in the morning the day after Thanksgiving, because my wife called at 5:55 to ask me a question about buying something. What’s worse? I didn’t even know she had left!

Anyway, I’m wondering about plugging Google AdSense into WordPress.com, and the only solution I’ve really hit upon is dropping them here straight into the HTML on the form. There doesn’t seem to be a way to modify the template like Blogger gives you to do that.

Maybe I should explore the WordPress.com service in more depth first– I just noticed the item on this entry screen marked “custom fields”. Hmmm. More as I play.

 

stripslashes(), or lack thereof

I can’t help notice that on the “about” text of the site here, the apostrophe in “I’m” is still escaped with a backslash. That should be a simple fix, just a call to PHP’s stripslashes() function.

On the other hand, the “Uncategorized” category problem I mentioned in my last post appears to have been fixed.

 

testing the wordpress service…

… and I seem to have found a couple of bugs.

First, the system let me create and publish a blank post. Seems like that shouldn’t be allowed, it would just clutter up the system.

Second, I notice when I changed categories on the first post, it was still showing the “Uncategorized” category as having 1 entry.

Third, when I deleted the “Uncategorized” blank post, it then showed the Uncategorized category as having -1 entry. That’s very odd, and hopefully just a cache issue.

 

Hello world!

Okay, I’ve set up this blog to check out WordPress’s online service. I understand it’s free, a la Blogger. It should be interesting… I’ll be putting it through it’s paces.

In the meantime, you can check out my regular blog at (what else?) chuggnutt.com.